NHS priorities

Whether it’s to prepare for the next Pharmacy Quality Scheme deadline, or to increase your confidence in helping people with a learning disability, this section provides topic-specific pages that link to current NHS priorities. This section will support you in keeping your knowledge and skills up to date in order to provide high-quality pharmacy services and be service-ready.

Public health

The public health agenda is embedded in pharmacy, yet topics such as emergency contraception or stop smoking support are as prevalent as ever. As well as our public health workshops, use this section to access a wide range of resources to assure and maintain your competence, all underpinned by the Declaration of Competence system.

Community pharmacy

We deliver a range of workshops on key clinical topics to offer pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in community pharmacy settings a clinical focus on practice. These include our focal point, prescribing perspectives and clinical assessment skills workshops. The workshops, facilitated by our team of tutors across England, are interactive and offer opportunities for you to share practice and learn together with your peers.

Watch the following video to learn more about what to expect if you attend one of our online workshops.

 

For pharmacy technicians, we have our Pharmacy technician development programme: preparing for the future. This includes education supervisor support and is designed to help pharmacy technicians develop their skills and confidence to deliver effective services in pharmacy practice.

We also have learning resources supporting pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to work under patient group directions.

You can study previous focal point topics in the form of distance learning programmes. Our workshops and online learning programmes are shown in the list below – we’ve included links to our:

  • ‘Fundamentals’ suite of e-courses, which are available to help you build your knowledge and skills in a range of therapeutic topic areas
  • Focal point online workshops, which provide the opportunity to work with peers through clinically focused topic
  • Prescribing perspectives online and face to face workshops, which are designed to help you to develop knowledge and skills to adopt a structured approach to safely provide medicines, either as a prescriber or under a patient group direction.

For other learning formats on clinical topics, use our search facility at the top of the page or our A-Z tab where you can filter for programmes such as e-learning.

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Programme formats explained

distance learning

Self-study programmes available as PDFs

e-assessment

Online assessments

e-course

Extended online programmes which are either self-directed or supported by a CPPE tutor

e-learning

Self-study online interactive learning, podcasts or e-lectures

factfile

Self-study, information-based, reflective online learning

focal point

Programmes for primary care teams including community pharmacy

guide

Programmes for hospital and primary care pharmacy teams

online workshop

Online workshops facilitated by a CPPE tutor

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Programmes for hospital and primary care pharmacy teams

workshop

Local workshops facilitated by a CPPE tutor or some you can deliver yourself

Learning levels explained

We recognise that people have different learning needs. Some of our programmes contain core learning while others deliver more complex learning that is only required to support certain roles. We have three categories of learning (1,2,3) and have allocated each programme to an appropriate category.

Core learning. Builds on limited knowledge. Some background reading may be required.

Application of knowledge. Assumes prior learning.

Supporting specialisms. We may not be the provider and will signpost you to other learning providers.

Learning programmes from other providers which complement your learning.